"The burden of power": The party of the future German Chancellor is already losing support
The successful completion of the probing negotiations for the winner of the Bundestag elections, the Christian Democratic ...
Who is Friedrich Merz, the Next Chancellor of Germany? All you need to know
Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is set to become the next Chancellor of Germany ...
Germany Needs to Get Its Act Together. Under Him, It Won’t.
Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...
Merz Appears Poised to Be Germany’s Next Chancellor
Exit polls suggest that Friedrich Merz, the candidate for the conservative Christian Democrats who has vowed to bring ...
Trump’s Embrace of Putin Has Germany Thinking of Nuclear Weapons
Europeans are reconsidering their security and giving currency to an idea the U.S. has long sought to avoid: a nuclear-armed ...
Germany’s likely next government seeks higher defense spending as doubts rise about US commitment
The prospective partners in Germany’s next government say they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules on running up debt to ...
Germany’s Likely Next Chancellor Pushes For Tighter Border Controls
Germany's economy is in desperate need of foreign labor, but a political environment hostile to all kinds of immigrants makes ...
Germany’s far-right may be frozen out of power, but the AfD is now a powerful force
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
Germany eyes swift moves on defence, investors sniff bonanza
The prospect of a military spending boom by Germany unprecedented since the Cold War sent Europe's defence stocks soaring ...
Explainer-Germany's Rocky Path to a New Debt Settlement
But the conservatives, SPD and Greens still need the backing of one more party for it to pass the Bundesrat: that could be ...
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Who Is Friedrich Merz? Germany's Likely Next Chancellor
Peter Aitken is a Newsweek Politics Editor based in New York. His focus is domestic U.S. politics, but he has experience covering Foreign Affairs, Business and Technology. Peter joined Newsweek in ...